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[i]Weather permitting, people within about a 500-mile (800-kilometer) radius of the central Florida coast will be able to see the flare from the shuttle's solid-fuel rocket launchers two seconds after launch for about two minutes. From two to eight minutes after launch, Discovery's main engines will make the shuttle seem to burn like a flickering, yellow-orange star. People with binoculars may even be able to make out the shuttle's V-shaped tail. This stage of the event should be visible to sky-watchers as far north as the southern tip of Nova Scotia and as far west as the Appalachian Mountains. But observers will need an unobstructed view, as the shuttle will appear very low to the horizon -- no higher than the width of a fist on an outstretched arm.[/i]
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